Camelopadalid meteor?
The shape, brightness and direction are promising, but the streak continues dimly in the images before and after this one, so no, it's not a meteor but a satellite, and the bright flash is its solar panels catching the light of the sun just right to flash them at us briefly, like an "Iridium flare".
I still have two more sequences of time-lapse footage to go through, and this one will be easier to examine as video, so I'll probably find some meteors somewhere in the 1500+ images. When I'm done the video footage will look something like this:
Perseid Meteor Shower – "While The Sun Was Sleeping" by Life Audience
#Camelopardalids #meteorshower #astronomy #astrophotography
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Camelopadalid meteor?
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classe ! thanks for sharing !
Amazing simply amazing
We crapped out around 9 - I'd been up since 3:30am and we have events today we wanted to actually be awake and functioning for, so sleep had priority.
+Jeff Sullivan - how was our planet's first go 'round with the Camelopardalids?
Good luck with finding shooting stars in the frames!
I realize I didn't "technically" stay up through the "peak" at 3am... but having seen zero by 2:45am I realized this was not going to be producing the 2-3 per minute that most people were betting on. After talking to other club members, I did discover that some of our observers at darker and better skies saw perhaps 8 meteors all night.
It seems many people are getting disappointed about not seeing the Rare meteor Shower. We can see their tweets in the video Meteor Shower "Camelopardalids" in North America - Photos and Disappointment Tweets
I don't feel too bad about just heading to bed then. I was a little worried I would miss out on a massive meteor storm.
http://www.diariotorredonjimeno.es/actualidad/la-andalucista-pilar-tavora-reclama-a-europa-%EF%BF%BDpan-trabajo-y-libertad%EF%BF%BD/42260
Nice star very beautiful photo is wonderful
This amazing
beautiful